Dr. John G. Hollins, past Chair CACOR Board of Directors, comments: If language is not used rightly, then what is said is not what is meant. If what is said is not what is meant, then that which ought to be done is left undone. Confucius The term climate emergency is the political buzz phrase […]
Some Of Us Will Lose; Some Of Us Will NOT Lose; All Of Us Can Win
CACOR member Dr. John Maskell considers the Canadian Election. It’s 4am in the morning. I’ve just wakened from a very vivid dream. In this dream I was visiting a family in another city from where I live. There were two teenagers in their senior year of high school, and there was a “welcome” evening going […]
North American Associations for the Club of Rome
Past Chair, CACOR Board of Directors, Dr. Robert Hoffman reports: On Monday, September 23rd, the North American Associations for the Club of Rome held a meeting at Scandinavia House in New York City on ‘Sustainable Development Goal Achievements and Future Priorities’, as one of the series of Continental Dialog events that began in 2010. Participants […]
To Bee or Not to Bee
Member CACOR Board of Directors, Gordon Kubanek, reminds us of World Bee Day. The selfish case for saving bees – it’s really how we save ourselves May 20 was World Bee Day. Let’s cheer on those hard working bees! Given that I am a beekeeper I am thrilled that pollinators are being acknowledged as vital […]
John Ivison:Timely book warns that Canada’s democracy is threatened by political abuse
Dr John Hollins, past CACOR Chair Board of Directors, posted this book review from the Ottawa Citizen. Political power is no longer located in Parliament, political parties, Cabinet or the bureaucracy. It is held by the PM, his advisers, lobbyists and the rich John Ivison, Ottawa Citizen, September 3, 2019 Just as the Trojans learned […]